Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation 9783110781168, 9783110781069

Table of contents :
Contents
1 Analyzing language variation: Where sociolinguistics and linguistic typology meet
2 Isolation, complexification, and development of unusual features: A case study from some Gallo-Italian dialects of Northern Italy
3 On typological shift in Inner Anatolian Greek
4 Social factors in mixed language emergence: Solving the puzzle of Amish Shwitzer
5 Socio-linguistic effects on conditional constructions: A quantitative typological study
6 Counterfactual conditionals: Linguistic variation in Italian and beyond
7 Syntactic elaboration in the domain of periphrasticity: Evidence from Spanish
Index